Chapter 328: Becoming Emperor
After the Xinhai Palace Incident, at first, the reaction of the society was extremely hot, and the matter occupied the headlines of the "Declaration" and "The Times" for several weeks, and there was a lot of discussion from all walks of life, and at the same time, foreign embassies also poured their nests into the nest, mobilizing all their connections to collect intelligence information about the transformation of the supreme power of the Qing court. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But soon, these things are not very new, the dust of the new political situation has settled, under the strong chairmanship of Ye Kai, the foundation of the new regime is more solid than anyone thinks, on the whole, the people of this government are still supportive, and the response is also tending to be favorable.
First, because the imperial cabinet created by Yi Xuan really gave him points, and Ye Kai came to power as soon as he came to power, he received the support of the Senior Administration, that is, the constitutionalists, and secondly, under the condition that the existing constitutional system remains unchanged, whoever wants to fight the emperor's idea is equivalent to stabbing the hornet's nest, from this point of view, Zai Zhenzhi does not complain, and third, in the newly established cabinet, the number of Manchu and Han ministers is half each, continuing the delicate balance of nearly three hundred years before.
Somewhat surprisingly, after the coup d'état, the overseas revolutionary party temporarily stopped its usual attacks and insults against the Qing court, and there were some voices of approval within it, perhaps because there was a revolutionary minister of education in the cabinet, or perhaps because of other factors.
Ye Kai didn't have time to pay attention to all kinds of noise in society, and in the past few days, he has devoted all his energy to unifying the military power of the whole country.
In the 70 years of the late Qing Dynasty, after the Taiping Rebellion, the War against Britain, the War against France, the War against Russia, the War against Japan, and several Sino-foreign wars, the domestic military system was extremely chaotic. In addition, the tradition of local military power being controlled by the governor has been inherited, which has also led to the phenomenon of warlords everywhere after the Republic of China.
These are stubborn diseases.
After thinking about it, Ye Kai decided to start with the most effective new army, and with the approval of Zaifeng, the Military Advisory Office was promoted to the Military Funding Office, with Ha Hanzhang as the first Minister of Military Resources, Li Guangben was promoted to the first vice minister, and the director of the Intelligence Department, Jiang Yanxing was re-in charge of the Security Bureau, ranking second, and the reorganized Military Assets Office was equivalent to the Supreme Staff Department in later generations, and it also became the three major military departments parallel to the War Department and the Navy Department in one fell swoop.
After preliminary consideration, he decided to use half a year to implement this system in the new army of 36 towns (in fact, 17 towns) across the country, and ordered that only the troops who passed the inspection could be given the number again, and the first batch of new troops in the six towns that completed the inspection were given the number of the first to sixth towns of the army, and they were naturally the original six towns of Beiyang.
After the new army, it is naturally the turn of the old army, this force is mainly in the hands of the governors of various places, Ye Kai ordered in the name of the Ministry of War to dismiss the land commanders of the nineteen provinces, among them, the most powerful is the Jiangbei Governor Lei Zhenchun, he has nearly 10,000 troops under his command, governing the territory in northern Jiangsu, on the same day Your Excellency ordered, Lei Zhenchun was dismissed and taken down on the grounds of participating in the Xinhai coup, and Zhang Xun, who was previously caught by Ye Kai, was also imprisoned in the same name, three days later, the two of them "committed suicide" in prison.
After the abolition of the post of admiral, some of these people were appointed to the command of the new army, some were transferred to the War Department, and some were simply forced to retire.
The Great Purge in the Army, this is only the first round.
Just as everything was in full swing, the War Department suddenly received urgent information.
Something happened to Khalkha!
On April 19, 1911, under the instigation of Tsarist Russia, the four Khalkha Mongol Han tribes participated in the establishment of the Great Mongolian State in Kulun (now Ulaanbaatar) with the living Buddha 8th Jebtsundamba as the emperor and established the Great Mongolian State.
At the same time, Jebtsunbadan ordered the expulsion of the Qing court's ministers in Kulun, and the rest of the subordinate officials were also escorted out of the country, in the enthronement edict, Jebzunbadan denounced the Manchurians for implementing the policy of "cutting down the number of people and reducing the seeds", and brutalized the Khalkha Mongols for two hundred years, and at the same time, he called on the banners of Inner Mongolia in Monan to jointly resist the tyranny of the Qing people, "not to eat the Qing millet", "restore my rivers and mountains", and even establish a completely independent state of the Mongols.
After getting this information, Ye Kai almost sneered, these Khalkha people who don't know whether they are alive or dead still dare to risk the world's condemnation.
He knew that Jebtsunbadan's sudden proclamation of the emperor would not be a whim, and the planning behind it was not a day or two, since the Kulen minister Sanduo took office, he advocated the new policy in Mongolia, which directly shook the hereditary **** power of the Khalkha nobles, coupled with the fact that the capital had just thwarted the coup, the new regime was not stable, and the two towns of Beiyang that guarded Mongolia called back the Beijing division, which made the Khalkhas emboldened, of course, the support of the Russians is also indispensable.
At four o'clock in the afternoon of the 19th, the cabinet held an emergency meeting, and the regent Zaifeng personally sat in charge, at the meeting, Ye Kaili led the army to recover Outer Mongolia, and personally led the army to smash Kulen and capture the puppet emperor Jebzunbadan.
Zaifeng's full support, coupled with Ye Kai's prestige, was unanimously recognized for the recovery by force, and despite the sound of opposition, Ye Kai completely ignored it.
Back at the War Department, Ye Kai immediately summoned the three generals of the Praetorian Guard, Ha Hanzhang, Sun Chuanfang, Jiang Yanxing, and the director of the Seventh Department of the Military Resources Office to discuss the next military deployment.
He decided to divide the troops into two routes, the eastern front with the Janissary Army 1 Town, 2 Town, and Army 2 Town as the main force, along the Rehe River Inner Mongolia into Khalkha, this route led by Ye Kai personally, in addition to eliminating the Mongolian army stationed in eastern Mongolia, but also to guard against reinforcements from Harbin.
The western front was dominated by the third town of the Janissary Army, the third town of the army, and the sixth town, led by Sun Chuanfang, through Shanxi, Suihua, and Inner Mongolia into Ka, and directly attacked Kulen, and at the same time had to guard against the Russian army that might be reinforced from Siberia.
The two armies eventually met Kulun, and Ye Kai's deployment basically followed Xu Shuzheng's march route.
This battle plan is, of course, the top secret of the top secret, after that, Ye Kai announced the dismissal of the meeting, and each department went back to each department to do the final pre-war mobilization, and five days later, the army officially opened the front line.
The 100,000-strong army is about to embark on the land of the Far Northern Frontier, the road of glory and glory, and this time, the Chinese will never allow defeat.
Although Middle-earth is large, there is no extra place for half an inch. (To be continued.) )